Lee O. Peacock

PEACOCK, TROLLOPE, KAVANAUGH, MILLIN, LIGGITT SCHULTZ

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LEE O. PEACOCK has been a printer since early manhood, and in that work has been connected with printing houses and newspaper establishments in many localities in Iowa and other states. Another important chapter of his experience was his service during the World war. Since 1923 he has been the publisher of the Tripoli Leader in Bremer County, Iowa. Mr. Peacock and the Leader were born in the same year, 1894.

His birth occurred at Bloomington, Wisconsin, July 5 of that year. His parents, James and Lottie (Trollope) Peacock were also born at Bloomington, and his father is now seventy-one and his mother seventy-two. James Peacock has for many years been owner of a barber shop and has been active in local affairs, serving as a member of the city council and for twenty-four years has been city treasurer. He is a Republican, is a member of the Knights of Pythias,and he and his wife are Methodists. There were five children in the family: Maude, wife of J. E. Kavanaugh, foreman of a printing shop in Chicago; Lee O.; Bernice and Bernard, twins, the former the wife of L.G. Millin, an accountant at Racine, Wisconsin, while Bernard, a Chicago salesman, served with the artillery brigade in the Forty-second of Rainbow Division overseas; and Blanche, wife of Calvert Liggitt, in the wholesale paint and varnish business at Madison, Wisconsin.

Lee O. Peacock graduated from the Bloomington High School in 1912 and in the same year began his apprenticeship as a printer in the office of the Bloomington Record. On leaving there he took up his experience as a journeyman, which brought him relationships with various papers and publications in the Middle West. For a time he was linotype operator on the Prairie du Chien Courier.

In July, 1917, he volunteered and enlisted in the regular army. He joined at Jefferson Barracks, Saint Louis, and was with the colors two years, being transferred from camp to camp as a drill sergeant and instructor in machine gun and small arm and bayonet practice. He was probably stationed at a dozen cantonments, including Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, Camp Taylor, Kentucky, Camp Gordon, Georgia, Camp Sheridan, Alabama, and others, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Dodge, Iowa. His regular assignment was with Company F of the Forty-sixth Infantry.

When the country no longer needed his service he resumed his place with the Prairie du Chien Courier. He was next with the Oelwein Iowan until it was merged with the Register. For a time he was on the Dairy Farmer at Waterloo, then with the Cedar Falls Record, and left there to take charge of the Tripoli Leader, which has enjoyed a period of exceptional prosperity under his management since 1923.

Mr. Peacock is a past adjutant of the Tripoli Post of the American Legion, is a member of the Iowa State Press Association and National Editorial Association. He is a Republican, is a Knights Templar Commandery Mason at Waverly, and he and his wife are Methodists, but attend the Congregational Church, as the Methodist Church was consolidated with that denomination. He is also a member of the Commercial Club. He married Nora M. Schultz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Schultz, of Waterloo. Mr Schultz was in the furniture, jewelry and undertaking business in Stacyville, Iowa, for about twenty-two years. Mrs. Peacock is active in various local organizations, notably Congregational Church activities, Ladies Improvement Club, and the Legion Auxiliary, of which she is a member of the executive committee. She is also a member of the Eastern Star. They have three children, Eunice Jean, born March 17, 1924, Donna, born July 24, 1928, and Dorris Mac, born November 4, 1929, all born at Tripoli.

from A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, USINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL.B., A.M.. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa, Volume IV. THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York, 1931.

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